KvE> I also use the kludge for a display routine for e.g. raw packages
That is exactly how I've been using it too. However most raw pkt's I've seen don't have a CHRS kludge and the encoding is usually 7-bit ascii which doesn't require a CHRS kludge to make themselves known. Same with UTF-8 characters. It is *only* the 8-bit characters (ie greater than 0x7f) which require proper identification as to what codepage they correspond to in order to render the intended character. For this purpose I have been using iconv and it's charmaps in order to display them as utf-8 characters to the terminal application for reading, including things like 'cat', 'less', and the such. It doesn't *have* to be an editor. In your case you are limiting yourself to latin-1 characters which won't work with many of the other codepages such as cp866. It can't be done, not even with Golded+. That is why I started using a pure utf-8 terminal a few years ago simply because it isn't limited to 8-bit characters. Also the 8-bit character CP* ones can really cause much grief on an ISO based terminal. I am sure you have encountered that by now.
KvE> header is in an 8 bit character set
I've noticed that but have sent utf-8 characters in there as well without breaking anything. You have to be careful not to exceed the string limits though since the character count will be different for 8-bit targetted apps. For example the Swedish person whose name I won't mention has one character in his name that will appear to be exactly one byte greater than the character count in a utf-8 application. The strings in FTN apps assume character counts and byte counts to be identical which isn't always true when dealing with utf-8. The so-called Norwegian utf-8 moose is a good example of this anomalous behavior. That example is 2 bytes greater than it's character count in a utf-8 app.
KvE> Especially in interesting times
Yes indeed.
Life is good, Maurice
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